Cuban folk singer Silvio Rodriguez has been on tour recently in the United States. When he was in Oakland, California on June 12th, documentary photographer Bill Hackwell was on hand to capture these images. (9 photos)
Read MoreUntil a some years ago, getting a picture taken in front of the Capitol Building in Havana was something Cuban campesinos did. Later it was also common to see foreigners doing the same.(6 photos)
Read MoreIn unison, the jury for the Second HT Photo Contest expressed its desire to congratulate the participants for their excellent submissions. The job of selecting was so painstaking that one of the 20 jury members said she’d prefer not to be a judge in the future to avoid the agony.
Read MoreFreedom for the Cuban Five was the motive behind a car caravan conducted this past Sunday by members and supporters of the Spanish organization “Defensem Cuba” (Let’s defend Cuba). (21 photos)
Read MoreNone of the dogs was a Dalmatian, or a German shepherd, or any of the types that people in this country will pay forty or fifty dollars for (sometimes more). What was sure, no one would have paid ten cents for these dirty, mangy street dogs that looked at us from the pictures with sadness. (15 photos)
Read MoreIt occurs in the metro or in minivans, the most widely used forms of public transportation in Caracas. Your standing up in the aisle or sitting and suddenly you hear a voice behind you saying, “Before anything else, good afternoon.” (12 photos)
Read MoreOnce inside and among the instruments, I could appreciate flutes of different sizes and styles; the Sitar, an instrument of traditional strings; and the harmonium, an instrument possessing a sound similar to that of the accordion and which was introduced by the British during the colonization of northern India.
Read More“The plurality of speech allows us to recognize diversified aesthetic experiences that nurture new re-conceptual readings of cultural legacy.” In this way we can enjoy everything from the most artisanal creations to technological advances traveling across dissimilar spaces of art in Africa, a pluri-cultural continent.”
Read MoreThe creator of the Callejon de Hamel alleyway community art project, Salvador Gonzalez Escalona, is a painter, sculptor and muralist. His objective was to offer creative art to people while at the same time revitalizing an alleyway that had been forgotten by both time and the city. (23 photos)
Read MoreI’ve often wondered why there isn’t a day for grandmothers. Why isn’t there the same saying for mothers that popularly exists about fathers: “a father is anyone, but there’s only one mother”? Couldn’t we turn the tables or at least dedicate a day to all women that have been mothers without being the person who gave birth to their “children”? (18 photos)
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